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Greg’s List: Favorite Quotes of 2007…

“No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you’re confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it…I’ve always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it.”– Dominic Monaghan

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“I feel sorry for him. I think it’s really sad. What a tragic character. He’s tragic. People like Ted Haggart [sic] – that’s tragic. Or Mark Foley. These are living tragedies. They’re people who want to be part of a society that does not want them, and so they’re willing to be secretive about their sexuality and hide who they are, and really who they are is not bad, it’s not criminal at all. But it drives them to sort of criminalizing acts. It’s really sad.”– Margaret Cho on disgraced Senator Larry Craig.

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“…In all the years that I was on the show, I had a very strong gay following and I always cherished that, you know? That they didn’t think that because of my faith that I was some sort of intolerant, condemning, self-righteous person. I never got that from them. I got a lot of criticism from the faith world, believe me, for the choices I made through the years. I think people are sometimes afraid of somebody who’s different from themselves simply because they don’t know it. I think anybody that can only stay in their own pew, people who think and act and believe every way exactly the same, I mean…you want to talk about living a boring life. So I’ve always sensed tremendous support from the gay community and I’m very, very grateful for it…”
– Kathie Lee Grifford about her gay fans from the “Regis” days…

“People from all walks of life are embracing Luke and Noah and want them to be happy. That is pretty awesome. Also, my personal belief is that the hugely positive reaction says a lot about what we stand for as a country. We need to accept each other and embrace differences of all kinds.”
– actor Van Hansis (Luke) to fans supportive of the gay love story on “As the World Turns.”

“Everyone’s gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what’s left and what’s right? You know? It’s America. You gotta be able to speak out. That’s why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else – the same.”
– Cyndi Lauper

“It’s difficult to stand up for gay people. When white people stand up for black people, it’s perceived as doing something good. But when straight people stand up for gay people, they’re perceived as gay.
– Out former NBA player John Amaechi

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“I have never felt compelled to share with you my bathroom habits or share with you my bedroom habits,’ he says. ‘Everyone has a right to privacy, so I have never felt–even though I am famous–that I had to share that with anybody.”
– John Travolta, when asked about speculation surrounding his sexuality

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“Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] needs a lobotomy! How can she defend the Bush administration? Being pregnant doesn’t [screw] with your head that much.”
– Sharon Osbourne on “The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“I was raised by drag queens, practically … my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend’s houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.”
– “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo

” Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.”
— George Michael